Immigration

TIJUANA, Mexico, (AFP) - US Border Patrol agents used tear gas and pepper spray to counter rock-throwing migrants when a group of about 150 tried to illegally cross the border from Mexico, leading to 25 arrests, the agency said on Tuesday.
It is the second time since November that border officers..

ZEKE MILLER and LISA MASCARO, WASHINGTON, (AP) - A week and a half into a partial government shutdown, House Democrats released their plan to re-open the government without approving money for President Donald Trump's border wall. At the same time, the president struggled to find leverage to break..

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — U.S. immigration authorities say they had no contact with a Mexican national suspected of killing a California police officer until the man was arrested last week.
The killing rekindled a national debate over sanctuary policies and prompted President Trump to call for..

By CALVIN WOODWARD, WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump, in his first public words about two migrant children who died in Border Patrol custody, misrepresented the circumstances of their deaths as he sought to deflect any responsibility from U.S. authorities.
All the facts are not..

By OLGA R. RODRIGUEZ and JOCELYN GECKER, SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A man suspected of gunning down a California policeman was in the U.S. illegally and was captured while planning to flee to his native Mexico, a sheriff announced as he all but blamed the state’s sanctuary law for the officer’s..

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Latest on the partial government shutdown (all times local):
1:20 p.m.
Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador has reacted cautiously to a threat by President Donald Trump to close the border.
Trump tweeted Friday: “We build a Wall or ... close the Southern..

By NOMAAN MERCHANT, HOUSTON (AP) — U.S. Customs and Border Protection has ordered medical checks on every child in its custody after an 8-year-old boy from Guatemala died, marking the second death of an immigrant child in the agency’s care this month.
The death came during an ongoing dispute..

By Steve Goldberg and Carma Hassan, (CNN): Hundreds more migrants are expected to be released in El Paso, Texas, on Christmas Day and Wednesday as the community works to accommodate hundreds already released at a bus station over the last two days, officials said.
US Immigration and Customs..

DARLENE SUPERVILLE, WASHINGTON, (AP) - Both sides in the long-running fight over funding President Donald Trump's U.S.-Mexico border wall appear to have moved toward each other, but a shutdown of one-fourth of the federal government entered Christmas without a clear resolution in sight.
In fact, a..

BY KENT JACKSON, THE (Hazleton) Standard-Speaker, HAZLETON, Pa. (AP) — By digging into facts about a massacre of immigrant coal miners more than a century ago in Lattimer, archaeologist Paul Shackel uncovered a perspective on immigration in the Hazleton area today.
Shackel and his students from..

WASHINGTON: The U.S. Supreme Court on Friday rejected a request from the Trump administration to begin enforcing a ban on asylum for immigrants who illegally cross the U.S.-Mexico border.
The narrow 5-4 ruling, with Chief Justice John Roberts siding with his four more liberal colleagues, left in..

ALGIERS, (AFP) - Twenty migrants were missing Friday a day after the boat they were travelling in caught fire off the Algerian coast, official media said.
The APS national news agency, quoting an unnamed security source, said the migrants were among 29 people aboard the ill-fated boat.
A..

MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Mexico’s foreign ministry said on Thursday that it would allow some non-Mexican migrants back into the country temporarily for humanitarian reasons while they have their U.S. immigration status processed.
The ministry statement said that the U.S. government told Mexico it..

By COLLEEN LONG, WASHINGTON (AP) — A federal judge on Wednesday blocked Trump administration policies that prevented immigrants who suffered gang violence or domestic abuse in their home countries from seeking asylum.
U.S. District Court Judge Emmet Sullivan declared that some of the guidance..

By ELLIOT SPAGAT, SAN DIEGO (AP) — One by one, U.S. Magistrate Judge William Gallo called the names of 14 defendants who were charged with entering the country illegally. Defense attorneys told him the government had already deported them to Mexico, making it impossible for them to appear.
In a..

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Arrests of people suspected of living in the U.S. illegally have increased 24 percent in a four-state region since President Donald Trump entered office, mirroring a national trend.
Numbers released last week by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement show increasing..

COTONOU, (AFP) - Jacques wanted to start working when he was 10. His father refused so he left his home in Tema, Ghana, to live in nearby Benin, like many young children in search of a better life.
"I got on a bus to Cotonou sticking to a lady as if I were her son," says the relaxed young man, as..

Brian Padden, WASHINGTON, (VoA): A growing number of immigrants in the United States are being incarcerated in detention centers for increasingly extended periods of time, and without being afforded the legal protections given to criminals, according to a recent report issued by the American..

WASHINGTON, (AFP) - A seven-year-old Guatemalan girl died in American custody after being detained by US border police in the state of New Mexico, The Washington Post reported on Thursday.
The girl -- who illegally crossed the border from Mexico along with her father and dozens of others -- died..

Get The Nepal24Hours.com App

Follow Us On :

www.nepal24hours.comIntegration Through Media under Nepal24hours Inc, is a dedicated online news service delivering and Staffed 24 hours, seven days a week by a dedicated staff at its head office in 11843 Elaine Ave, Artesia, CA 90701, USA, its bureau office in Kathmandu, Nepal and in bureau offices elsewhere brings the latest and up to date news service. The online news service is being presently served by 16 news professionals. The online news services equipped with latest media technologies and features the latest multimedia technologies, from live video streaming to audio visual packages to searchable archives of news features and background information. The site is updated continuously throughout day and night from the USA and Nepal equally.